Inpatient psychiatric facilities: A whole new world

"I remember talking to some of the folks who work in CDI at conferences, and when I would ask them about psych units, none of them had CDI working on those units at all,” says Suzanne Dennis, CTRS, CCDS, director of clinical services/documentation specialist at Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc., a Franklin, Tennessee–based a company that owns private psychiatric hospitals in the United States and Puerto Rico. Finding other people who conducted concurrent documentation improvement efforts in freestanding inpatient psychiatric facilities proved difficult for Dennis.